Artist Quotes

But I really want to be an artist, so therefore I have to live a little bit like a monk.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

Sam Wood, the director, made most of his money as a real estate agent; there was nothing of the temperamental artist about him.

I get up around 7 a.m. That's very early for a stand-up comic. Then I'll have breakfast with my husband, the artist Al Ridenour, take my three dogs for a walk and commence with my work.

I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together.

You know, the record business is much different than being artist on stage.

An artist cannot be responsible for what people make of their art. An audience loathe giving up preconceived images of an artist.

The writer, when he is also an artist, is someone who admits what others don't dare reveal.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a Black artist with White skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.

Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.

The man of science, the artist, the philosopher are attached to their nations as much as the day-laborer and the merchant.

I guess I've always liked the idea of being an artist.

The only thing an artist has to remember is to never lose faith in his vision.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

All the stuff that I used to treat with contempt - you know, I'm an artist, man, I don't do that family stuff - has begun to seem really important.

One often forms a mental image of an artist through his work and is often disappointed on meeting him.

A producer should only be there to enable an artist to be himself.

If we are to change our world view, images have to change. The artist now has a very important job to do. He's not a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's really needed.

To protect the right of expression is the central part of an artist's activity... In China many essential rights are lacking, and I wanted to remind people of this.

My make-up artist, she uses bronzer on the eyelids too. And also a little bit on the forehead to make everything look even.

An artist is somebody who enters into competition with God.

I'm just an artist and I'm doin' what I like to do.

I have been surrounded by artists and paintings throughout my life. My father Ted Dyer is an artist, and from a very early age I have spent time painting and drawing.

I'd rather have people really be able to step back and get their money's worth and look at me as a true artist than somebody who is just regurgitating other material.

Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they're no artist. If it's in your blood, it can't stop flowing.